The Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center, located at the University of New Hampshire, is a national center of expertise in ocean mapping and hydrographic sciences.
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Brian Calder Elected to Hydrographer Hall of Fame
Brian Calder, CCOM Associate Director, has been honored for his distinguished career in seafloor mapping technologies by The Hydrographic Society of America.
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Team Member of the MonthNancy Hann, NOAA Vice Admiral and Deputy Under Secretary for Operations, named CCOM Research Project Engineer Val Schmidt NOAA’s January Team Member of the Month! Val has been instrumental in developing NOAA’s ability to operate Uncrewed Marine Systems for ocean mapping and surveys and driving dramatic increases in the efficiency of NOAA’s ocean mapping activities.
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What Lies Beneath
CCOM research is the cover story of the Winter 2025 issue of UNH Magazine.
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Chronicle Visits CCOMChronicle's Anthony Everett recently visited CCOM to interview Larry Mayer about the Center's participation in the GEOEO24 expedition to Northern Greenland. Click through to watch the segment.
Research
Education
Outreach
How the Hunt for WWII Subs Revealed Undersea Volcanoes
History.com, Jun. 3, 2025
Only a Tiny % of the Deep Seafloor Has Ever Been Visually Observed: Study
Mongabay, May 30, 2025
Mapping the Deep
UNH Today, Apr. 7, 2025
CCOM’s Brian Calder Elected to Hydrographer Hall of Fame
UNH Today, Apr. 2, 2025
What Lies Beneath
UNH Magazine, Mar. 12 2025
Greenland Ice Cap is Now the Largest Contributor to Global Sea Level Rise — But Why?
Chronicle, WCVB, Feb. 21, 2025
New Hydrographic Survey Specifications - Updates and Enhancements
Wilson, M., Faulkes, T., Masetti, G., 2025 U.S. Hydro Conference. Wilmington Convention Center, North Carolina, 2025.
Advances in Ocean Mapping and Nautical Cartography
Masetti, G., Church, I., Hiroji, A.D., Andersen, O., MDPI Books, pp. 184, March 2025
Calculating 3D Rugosity Maps for Complex Habitat Scans
Beregovyi, K., Dijkstra, J.A., and Butkiewicz, T., Frontiers in Marine Science, vol. 12, p. 1449332, 2025.
Vessel Trajectory Data Mining: A Review
Troupiotis-Kapeliaris, A., Kastrisios, C., and Zissis, D., IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 4827-4856, 2025.
Focal Engine: Filling a Gap Between Game Engines and Big Data Scientific Visualization Packages
Kindrat Beregovyi
Ph.D. Student
Computer Science
Thursday, June 12, 2025, 11:00 a.m.
Chase 130
Behind the Rhythms of Free Surface Thermal Signatures: Two Length Scales, Two Behaviors, One Flow
Zeeshan Saeed
Ph.D. Candidate
UNH Department of Mechanical Engineering
Friday, May 2, 2025, 3:10 p.m.
Chase 105
Assessing Satellite-Derived Bathymetry Map Accuracy: A Comparison of Manual and Algorithmic ICESat-2 Bathymetric Extraction Methods and the Impact of Depth-Weighted Sampling
Andrea Granger
Master's Thesis Defense
Earth Sciences: Ocean Mapping
Friday, April 25, 2025, 9:00 a.m.
Chase 130